The Road to Wellville is a 1994 American comedy-drama film adaptation of T. Coraghessan Boyle's novel of the same name, which tells the story of the doctor and clean-living advocate John Harvey Kellogg and his methods as employed at the Battle Creek Sanitarium at the start of the 20th Century. It was written and directed by Alan Parker. The Road to Wellville stars Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Kellogg, Matthew Broderick as sanitarium patient William Lightbody, Bridget Fonda as his spouse Eleanor, John Cusack as budding health-food entrepreneur Charles Ossining, Dana Carvey as the doctor's adopted... son George and Colm Meaney as Dr. Lionel Badger. It was filmed in New Paltz, New York at the Mohonk Mountain House. Also used were the North Carolina towns of Winnabow and Wilmington. Dr. John Harvey Kellogg has opened a sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan, where he puts into practice his unusual methods for maintaining a healthy body including colonic irrigation, electrical stimulus and sexual abstinence, as well as vegetarianism and physical exercise.
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| Release date: | October 28, 1994 |
| Directed by: | Alan Parker |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 118 Minutes |
| Producer: | Alan Parker, Robert F. Colesberry, Armyan Bernstein |
| Editor: | Gerry Hambling |
| Music by: | Rachel Portman |
| Adapted from: | The Road to Wellville |
| Genre: | Comedy |